You Too Can Work From Home

I have literally spent over six months looking for legitimate work-at-home opportunities, spending painstaking hours combing through pages and pages of Google search returns for “work at home”. If you have been doing this as well, I can understand your frustration. With all of the offers out there, promising very large amounts of money for “part time effort”, it can be easy to start dreaming about a better life, and an extensive change in your cash flow. That is, until you find out that all of these “lucrative” opportunities cost large amounts of money to start, many times never living up to the big money promises that got you interested in the to begin with.

Working from home can be a wonderful experience. When you work from home, you have the opportunity to be your own boss and set your own hours, spend more time with friends and family, and you can avoid morning and rush hour traffic driving to and from the office, not to mention working in the comfort of your pajamas. With the growth and popularity of the internet, there are many opportunities to work from home, but it does take time to find legitimate work-at-home jobs, which means that you may have to spend a lot of time looking around for jobs that fit your lifestyle and interests. If you have decided that working from home would be the best opportunity for you, here are a few ideas to get you started.

First, look to your employer. There may be an opportunity to work from home in your current job, and it may be right under your nose. Some companies do give their employees the option to work from home, even if it’s just a few days a week. If your job is one in which you work a lot on the computer, you may be able to link your home computer to your computer at work, doing all of the same things you do at the office. The best thing to do in this situation is ask around, but be prepared to explain why you want to work from home. Of course working from home would be more convenient for you, so in most cases, this reason will not work. Really think about why it would be better for you to work from home, and if that is possible through your employer, be prepared to clearly and concisely articulate your reasons.

However, if you’d like to be your own boss while working from home, there are several other opportunities out there that may fit your interests.

If you like to take photographs, your amateur photography may be the key to working from home for you. There are websites that will pay you for your photographs, sometimes even allowing you to keep total control of the photographs you sell. Shutterpoint.com is one of these websites. Here, you can submit your photos, and set your own selling price (a minimum of $20). Shutterpoint will pay you 85% of the total selling price of your photos. You can browse the site for free, but you will have to buy storage space if you’d like to sell your photos. However, if photography is a passion of yours, the small storage fee is well worth it.

Another way to make money working from home is writing. The internet is filled with text content, and someone has to write it. If you like to write, this may be the best option for you. There are websites that will pay you to write short articles for them, and depending on how much you write, you can make a full time income this way.

According to my research, Associated Content is the best way to work from home as a writer. Associated Content pays its content producers $3-$20 per article and content producers can earn bonus money for each article for gaining page views for their content. You can submit articles, video, and audio on virtually any subject and earn money, so if you’d rather not write, Associated Content will still give you the opportunity to earn money from home.

For many people, working from home is not only convenient, but profitable as well. If you decide that you want to work from home, remember that it is still working, so the amount of time that you put into working from home is directly proportional to what you’ll get out of it. Keep at it, and stay positive; there is a lot of opportunity out there, if you’re willing and patient enough to look.

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